Geek Syndicate
There has been much written on the topic of Survival – from simple information about living off the land to more complex Bushcraft about shelter building, trapping etc. From this, further assumptions have been made about how one would survive the (inevitable) Zombie Apocalypse.
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SURVIVAL CONUNDRUM An Introduction
Zombie slaying implement. When was the last time you took up arms in aggression or defence? Could you? Really? If you did take up arms how effective would you be? Without training, will you be even as effective as you think? I live in the UK. Access to weapons, especially firearms is difficult (actually near impossible) and those firearms that are readily available (for example shotguns) are actually woefully inadequate and inappropriate, for reasons we may discuss when the time and opportunity arises. So. Would you cower in fear and indecision, would you find the whole situation desperately insurmountable, would you be able to fight your own crippling psychological demons first and think like a survivor? from their comfortable, fabricated shell and place them in the jungle, savannah or sea it soon becomes apparent how essential technology is to our very basic existence. Secondly, we are not as dominant as we would like to believe. However due to our big hot brains and nimble digits we have become victims of our own arrogance. We as a species have fought to tame and control our environment. To overcome and conquer that which fuels our fears, from lighting up the darkness, to fishing sharks to the point of extinction. Our perception of dominance is nothing more than a fundamental and insecure need to eradicate fear and attempt to harness the powerful, uncontainable nature that surrounds us. Thirdly, in the event of the dead rising, we will become prey again. We will be out of control. They will be advancing relentlessly and we will have to reconsider the very substance of our lives. Humans have not lived as a prey species for many centuries, particularly in Western and developed societies. There will be an unavoidable shift in our priorities as living entities. My suggestion in the first instance, for what it’s worth: Stock up on food and candles. Stay in. Block your doors and windows. Find a deck of cards and keep quiet!
The Guide’s Parameters
In order to sustain any meaningful discussion on the topic of Zombie Survival we must first decide on our variables – what type of Zombie are we talking here? What are the parameters surrounding the survivor? We can exclude the Haitian Zombie from our argument as this is a different meaning of the term Zombie (A person brought under a trance-like Voodoo spell and controlled by a third party), they are still living. We will be discussing the walking dead concept that has become a common part of popular media. How about “fast” Zombies? I like my Zombies served up Romero style, slow, bumbling and relentless. There is something ultimately distressing about the ceaseless advance of the individual Zombie and the hoard as a whole, one is difficult to stop and en mass, they are impossible to escape. This guide won’t be discussing which weapon is the best
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Society’s Fall
In order for us, modern humankind, to survive any form of Zombie outbreak and continue as a species, several fundamental factors of modern community living must be considered. Firstly, modern day humanity have removed ourselves from the environment in which we evolved to such an extent, that now it is considered “extreme” to go for a walk in the woods. Our ancestors survived and thrived in this habitat. If the electricity goes out how would we eat or see or read this? If you pluck a modern human
Yan Williamson